Bar: Creation of alternative group would usurp powers



The Bar Council has come out strongly opposite Minister in a Prime Minister's Department Nazri Abdul Aziz's proclamation yesterday of an pick to a Bar, observant it could usurp a functions of a legislature underneath a Legal Professions Act (LPA) 1976.

NONECouncil boss Lim Chee Wee (right) in a matter pronounced a Malaysian Bar was astounded by Nazri's matter over carrying a proposed law academy that "can be an alternative" to a Bar, as well as that a Bar Council should disintegrate itself.

Lim pronounced a Malaysian Bar is opposed to this suggestion, that appears identical to a proposal that a supervision had mooted, as well as subsequently withdrawn, twice in a past.

"Regrettably, this third occurrence appears to have come about quite as a reaction. This follows a Bar's strong message, contained in a last report upon a Bersih 3.0 public assembly upon Apr 28, as well as a fortitude adopted during a Extraordinary General Meeting upon Friday, of grave regard as well as condemnation of a use of excessive force by a police," he said.

"The creation of any 'alternative' institution empowered to control a control of a legal profession would usur! p a fu nctions as well as powers of a Bar Council underneath a LPA as well as ignore a powers as well as duty to umpire a own affairs, as well as would be an frightful assault upon a autonomy of a Malaysian Bar," he said.

Lim's response came after Nazri hadsuggestedsetting up a law academy as well as pronounced this will be discussed by a cabinet as well as a attorney-general soon. Nazri pronounced it was tall time for a brand new organisation, other than a Bar Council, to be shaped to paint those who studied law.
Threat of eccentric Bar

He pronounced Nazri's proclamation gave a notice that a proposal that is being revived for a third time, is due to a supervision feeling threatened by an eccentric Bar that overwhelmed upon a abuse of energy by state institutions similar to a military as well as spoke in counterclaim of a public.

"The Bar, in doing so, is fulfilling a duty underneath territory 42(1)(a) of a LPA, namely, 'to defend a cause of probity . . . uninfluenced by fright as well as favour.'

"The Malaysian Bar welcomes any pierce to inspire legal excellence, foster tall educational standards as well as inspire social communication as well as sermon by all those meddlesome in a law. But underneath a LPA, a legislature has a energy to umpire a members," he said.

He pronounced any part of can set up an organisation of lawyers, as a sovereign constitution guaranteed a right to freedom of association.

Lim pronounced such initiatives have resulted in a founding of, for example, a Malaysian Muslim Lawyers Association, Catholic Lawyers Society, as well as a Association of Women Lawyers.

The Bar Council boss pronounced a 36 members of a Bar Council are elected - not allocated - by a members annually, in a pure process.

"If there is any dissatisfaction about a care of a Bar, a members can introduce motions of no confidence opposite a legislature members, as they have done, unsuccessfully, in a past," he said.

bersih 3 convene 090512 02 tear gas nearby dataran merdekaLim also pronounced that upon Apr 28, a strong weight of a military was unleashed but restraint, as stated in a full report, onto a streets of Kuala Lumpur, where trusting participants were harmed, in contrast to Ipoh, Johor Bahru, Kuantan as well as Malacca where identical protests were held.

Pledging to go on to verbalise out for justice, Lim pronounced a legis! lature w ill go on to find probity for a influenced Bersih 3.0 participants, as well as pointed out a need for more transparency as well as burden from a country's law coercion agencies, that go on to commit transgressions as highlighted in four previous Suhakam public inquiries.

"The Malaysian Bar urges a Government not to conflict a messenger, but to act upon a message contained in a Bar'sfinal reportand theEGM resolutioninstead," he said.
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